is expression is of much greater antiquity. It appears in
the _Chronicle of Battel Abbey, p. 27_ (Lower's translation), and
in _The Vision of Piers Ploughman, line 13994_. ed. _1550_.

A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his
steps.--_Proverbs xvi. 9._

[7-2] Out of syght, out of mynd.--GOOGE: _Eglogs. 1563._

And out of mind as soon as out of sight.

Lord BROOKE: _Sonnet lvi._

Fer from eze, fer from herte,
Quoth Hendyng.

HENDYNG: _Proverbs, MSS. Circa 1320._

I do perceive that the old proverbis be not alwaies trew, for I do
finde that the absence of my Nath. doth breede in me the more
continuall remembrance of him.--_Anne Lady Bacon to Jane Lady
Cornwallis, 1613._

On page 19 of _The Private Correspondence of Lady Cornwallis_, Sir
Nathaniel Bacon speaks of the _owlde proverbe_, "Out of sighte,
out of mynde."

[7-3] See Chaucer, page 5.

JOHN FORTESCUE. _Circa_ 1395-1485.

Moche Crye and no Wull.[7-4]

_De Laudibus Leg. Angliae. Chap. x._

Comparisons are odious.[7-5]

_De Laudibus Leg. Angliae. Chap. xix._

FOOTNOTES:

[7-4] All cry and no wool.--BUTLER: _Hudibras, part i. canto i.
line 852._

[7-5] CERVANTES: _Don Quixote_ (Lockhart's ed.), _part ii. chap.
i._ LYLY: _Euphues, 1580._ MARLOWE: _Lust's Dominion, act iii. sc.
4._ BURTON: _Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. 3._ THOMAS
HEYWOOD: _A Woman killed with Kindness_ (first ed. in 1607), _act
i. sc. 1._ DONNE: _Elegy, viii._ HERBERT: _Jacula Prudentum._
GRANGE: _Golden Aphrodite._

Comparisons are odorous.--SHAKESPEARE: _Much Ado about Nothing,
act iii. sc. 5._

JOHN SKELTON. _Circa_ 1460-1529.

There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God,
Than from theyr children to spare the rod.[8-1]

_Magnyfycence. Line 1954._

He ruleth all the roste.[8-2]

_Why Come ye not to Courte. Line 198._

In the spight of his teeth.[8-3]

_Colyn Cloute. Line 939._

He knew what is what.[8-4]

_Colyn Cloute. Line 1106._

By hoke ne by croke.[8-5]

_Colyn Cloute. Line 1240._

The wolfe from the dore.

_Colyn Cloute. Line 1531._

Old proverbe says,
That byrd ys not honest
That fyleth hys owne nest.[8-6]

_Poems against Garnesche._

FOOTNOTES:

[8-1] He that spareth the rod hateth his son.--_Proverbs xiii.
24._

They spare